catastrophe in malloc error

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Can someone tell me what this means????? :confused:

        Catastrophe in malloc: sbrk\(\)error 1b

        IOT/Abort trap \(coredump\)

Thanks!

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the program seems to have sent a request to kernel for an increment in it's data segment, but kernel refused to do it.
check out the errno, i think it's probably set to ENOMEM. you can use fputs(strerror(errno), stderr); for a text version of the last error.